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erm of the watchman | , notion per year two dollars payable in i*'"5"*"1 hut it not paid in advance two dollars ffis'cts will be charged 1 b-jcest inserted at 1 fox the first and 2f cts vtrh subsequent insertion court ord.-rs charged ct higher than these rates a liberal deduc ts who advertise by the year jjl to the editors must be postpaid poetical from the dublin nation here i bit his own wife . j bat his own wife to guard and to guide him f,i little of sorrow would fall on my dear : . ant 11 1 >' low love verses stealing beside him i and so tender his heart would bul hear ; ie wiid blossoms from valley and highland tere at his feet i would lay them all down ; _â€¢ bim the songs of our poor-stricken island heart was on tire with a love like my own 0,'i a rose by his dwellingâ€”i'd tend the lone treas ure r-,a he night have flowers when the summer would bbbie ; rvre's arl '" 'â– *'" â€” i would wake its sweet mea . , inn have music to brighten his home --,., 1 hut his own wife to guide and to guard him -â€¢ of sorrow should fall on my dear ; , rtwry kind glance my whole life would reward him â€” in sickness i'd soothe and in sadness i'd cheer y heart is a fount welling upward forever â€” vii**n i think of my true love hy night or by day u heart keeps its faith like a fast flowing river rushes forever and sings on its way i-i thoughts full of peace for his soul to repose in rk 1 hut his own wife to win and to woo â€” n meet it the night of misfortune were closing tii r i'ke the morning star darling on you poetry j.ine on the sorrowful death of two lovers my i is of a nice young man whose name was peter gray the state where peter gray was bom was pennsylvani-a this peter gray did fall in love all with a nice young girl the name of her i'm positive was lizianny querl when they were going to be wed her father he said " no !" nd brutally did send her off beyond the ohi-o when lvt*-r found his love was lost he knew not what to say ; he'd half a mind to jump into the susquehanni-a \ trading he went to the west for furs and oilier skins an*l there he was in crimson drest by bloody in-ji-ins when lizianny heard the news she straightway went lo bed and nev<-r did she get off of it until she d-i-ed ! ye fathers all a warning take â€” each one as has a girl â€” and think upon poor peter gray and lizianny querl Â» mâ€”â€”*â€”tmmâ€”m from the banner of temperance a fragment true to thk letter i had a iriend he was in his youth handsome in i ic grot and learned such an one was beloved by all t a bim ; h was the idol of in loud ptirents ; the â– â€¢â€¢ t and esteemed of all his companions no one in , jr acquaintance was better calculated to interest and low a social party than my iriend he had his fault ah yea â€” it was grievous that which had been the ! min of thousands like the moth worm of death was fatting upon my noble friend's vitals he fell by the hand ol the destroyer ; but his fall was not speedy at only took an occasional social glass and then e appetite was formed he then became less guard jiid was made intoxicated once twice thrice â€” i iths passed by and he lay in the gutter a drunken sot vars passed and he seemed but the wreck of what was noble and so fair the stroke was too much tor ig mother broken-hearted she died and was 'â– â– â€¢: while her son was drunk soon his father fell the stroke the poor unfortunate sun now was â– â– amidst his ruin nothing remained of him ; wreck but hark ! an angel of mercy speaks its tones reach â– friend's ears he listens and obeys months roll aintains ins integrity and is himself again i v kim then oh how changed though the marks w the dr-^troyer were on him still i could see a resusci : the long dormant beauties of his character â€” nn passed away and my friend was siill safe n*ng uiie day by a farm house he was induced to j moment to obtain some refreshments those knew not his weakness and they proffered him i cider the temptation was too strong â€” he ank â€” twasenough â€” like a hungry wolf a taste of blood y whetted his appetite for more the monster had its iu an hour he was beastly drunk tor days lie y a drunken sot â€” and then i saw him i spoke to him tl tried to present to him some reason to hope for his he cast his eyes on me and oh ! i shall never b"?'>t that look of anguish and despair as he said to me taoe which made my very rlesh creep ' no no it is n.l aiu damned forever !' i tried ro speak ; but there """â€¢Â» mmething in his manner which sent the conviction "'* ")>' iimul that he spoke truly and involuntarily i re ''"Â°, i believe it and he spoke truly a few i after he died dead drunk he was damned for v-r from the taunton " dew drop who would marry a drunkard u would be well if young ladies who may he receiv ttentions of wine-drinking suitors would pause ' â€¢ eflect for a moment they should remember that iking leads to brandy-drinking and that there - almost a moral certainty that he who drinks ill become a drunkard facts prove this ; reform linkards have thus publicly stated in their address beware of him who frequents the hotel beware : who ridicules the temperance cause or jeers at rance man trust not your life with him â€” ne may reform you reply yes he may reform ire a hundred reasons to believe he will become uiikard where there is one to believe he will reform ' r'vat trust not to the wine drinker your happi yourall for this world is depending upon that iin " nt decision which you may be about to make in re l'"2 or rejecting the addresses of that young friend 1 lie thousands of drunkards wives teach vou a ies y alas are pining in sorrow emaciated with . long watching and unkind treatment will you Â»Â° their advice ? we seem to hear it from ten miserable women coining from ten thousand jjj'-nu hovels trust not the wine-drinker he will tt you | there is no safety but in total abstinence the carolina watchman bruner & james \ editors sc proprietors j " k"r a r^â„¢v all toc . s new series do this msb liberty is sufi < â– -*â– â– Â»-. gen'l harrison [ number 47 of volume iv salisbury n c thursday march 23 1848 remarks of mr levin of penxsvlvan-a 7/i the house of representatives march 2d . mr levin said mr chairman i have been so often misrepresented by the paid agents of the jesuits who hang a round this hall and who swarm over our land that i have come prepared to-day i was surprised to find in the bill now be fore the committee an appropriation for a charge-ship to rome and still more sur prised when my friend the honorable gen tleman from alabama informed me that he intended to move an amendment sub stituting in its stead a minister plenipo tentiary an embassy to rome i had sup posed to be the pet measure of the presi dent of the united states sympathy with pope pius ix appears to be the hob by horse of political leaders o'connell the irish reformer is dead the curtain has fallen upon that last act of the na tional farce and now the pope an italian reformer steps upon the stage to conclude what o'connell left unfinished the hur rah has gone through the country ; public meetings have been held sympathy for the pope has grown almost into a fashion : yet sir in no legitimate sense can this ; embassy to rome be called a national measure intended for the public benefit we have no commerce to protect in the roman states ; we have no seamen whose rights may need even the supervision of a government agent or consul ; we have no navy riding in her only harbor ; we ; have no interests that may be exposed to jeopardy for want of an ambassador the papal flag has never been known ! to wave in an american port no ame : rican vessel has received the visit of a pope dwelling under the shadow of the ruins of antiquity we have never been l disturbed but by the bulls of pope greg | ory and the intrigues of his jesuits what then has produced this sudden revolution in the concerns of the countries ? we are told that pius the 9th is a reformer in deed ! in what sense is he a reformer ? has he divested himself of any of his ab solute prerogatives ? has he cast off his claims to infallibility ? has he flung aside his triple crown ? has he diminished aught from the imperial elevation of the tiara and does he no longer hold in bondage the bodies and souls of his sub jects ? has he become a republican ? â€” does he acknowledge the inherent equal ity of mankind ? has he abolished tithes ? has he emancipated his people ? has he suppressed the jusuits ? far from it â€” nothing of this has been done he main tains his own prerogatives as absolute as j gregory the 19th or any of his illustrious ! predecessors in what then does the [ world give him credit for being a reform er ? for building up on a new and firmer foundation his own secular power for permitting a press to be established in rome under his own supervision and con \ trol ; for carrying out measures not to be ; censured but certainly giving him no pre tensions beyond that of a selfish sagacity intent on the study of all means calcula ted to add stability to his spiritual power and firmness to his temporal throne rut a sagacious monarch docs not constitute a liberal reformer even though he may correct many abuses that disgraced his predecessors who by their bigotry and intolerance had reduced the once boasted power of the papal see to a mere cipher as a free and civilized government anx ious for the continued progress of the pop ' ular mind we had infinitely more reason lor applauding gregory the 19th for pull ing down the power of the roman see than sending an embassy to pius the 9;h for having revived the drooping giant and imparted fresh energy to the most des potic power the world has ever felt why was no ambassador sent to gregory ? why is an ambassador sent to pius not because the interests of the country re quire it and who believes it is because of the landed liberality of one who seems ambitious of the renown of a man ofthe age ? who believes it is because pius encourages railways ; for what are ro man railways to us ? we have a more rational though less pleasing solution of this wonderful and newly awakened sym pathy for rome iu the increase of the ro man catholic vote caused by the irish famine and the difficulty of living in the german states which sends among us such countless legions of foreigners and what must be the occupation of the american ambassador when he reaches rome ? will he devote his attention to the increase of this supply of alien voters or to the interests of the united states in the cabinets of continental europe 1 â€” having no commercial or political duties to perform save those connected with the american ballot-box he must keep up the supply of voters who are to be judicious ly located by the legate ofthe pope and who so capable of this great diplomatic duty as the man who has so industriously agitated this sympathy to rome to gratify his inordinate and gigantic ambition who for years past has been the dictator the trader and the pander of the foreign ro man catholic vote ; who one minute acts the priest and the next day plays the po litician ; who would have the world to be lieve that he is greater than the president of the united states because he is the power behind the throne who moves the president who would have the world believe that because he flatters the ame rican people by a sermon from the nation al forum that he is the mainspring of the american congress combining the cha racter of priest and politician allowed to the ministers of no other sect this ambi tious demagogue taking for his molto that " impudence is power has dared to dis play an extent of audacity never practised and never allowed to any other clergy man this embassy and all the public turmoil that has led to its suggestion is the work of an intriguing restless grasp ing and ambitious priest who fans in bis bosom the nefarious hope that he is him self to be the destined organ between a free republic and an absolute hicrarch is it not enough that he should draw us into the vortex of european tyranny su perstition and corruption but must heal so dream of the vast honor of consumma ting in his own person this revolting alli ance between the crimes of hoary guilt and the purity of youthful innocence ? â€” for what after all has this popular pope done but oiled the chains of his people that they might never have power to break them asunder ? what are all his reforms 1 but gilded thraldom and slavery made eternal by modern rivets forged in the : ! fires of that " progress which serves equally to gloss the schemes of tyrants and the projects of imbecility ; which can be used with as much plausibility by the arch-tyrant who understands how to en \ \ slave men through their passions and im ; aginations as the political empiric who \ disguises his own ignoranee by prating of the march of mind ; whose tongue dis > j courses of benevolence while his iron hand , ! is armed with the power of oppression ? i i ask has pius ix abolished tithes â€” ; has he granted universal suffrage or any suffrage to his papal subjects has he , \ established a representative government ! has he introduced trial by jury ? has he \ granted the writ of habeas corpus ? has he abolished the college of cardinals ? â€” '. ' has he established common schools ? â€” has he struck down the power of the con ; fessional ? has he repealed the demor alizing edict of celibacy ? has he thrown open the gates of the monastery or un barred the iron bolts of the convent ? â€” ; has he separated church power from state authority ? has he abolished that pest bouse of intrigue and pernicious propa j ganism the society of the jesuits ? he has done none of these things then what has he done to entitle him to the sympa thy of the people and the homage of the government of the united states no thing he has made no fundamental alteration ; in the papal system the edifice remains entire ; it is supported by the same gothic | columns of mideval ignorance and super 1 stition he may polish an architrave â€” he may repair a broken step leading to the vestibule or suspend a new wreath around the altar or add an ivory crucifix : or even lay a railway into the capital of j ; the caesars but the palace system remains entire unaltered unimproved â€” the same stern tyranny the same inflexible com pound of earthly and celestial despotism vet the man who is pope is not a caesar borgia pius is not as a man so narrow and contracted as gregory pius under stands human nature and knows how to render the papal system popular by wrea thing chains with rose blossoms perhaps the elements mix more gently in his bo som put all this does not make the papal system less odious it was said of augustus the first ro ' man emperor that he made tyranny so beautiful by his amiable character as to destroy in the roman people lhe love of liberty pius is now doing more than augustus for he is reconciling the world to the concentrated despotism of the most iron-handed hierachy that ever flourished if rome will not come to america ame rica must go to rome ! this is the new doctrine of an age of retrogressive pro gress if the pope will not establish a republic for his italian subjects we the american people must renounce all the ties of our glorious freedom and endorse the papal system as the perfection of hu man wisdom by sending an ambassador to rome to congratulate " his holiness on having made â€” what ? the roman people free oh no but on having made tyranny amiable in having su gared the poisoned cake as lor this the highest crime against freedom we are to commission an ambassador to rome ! is there an american heart that does not recoil from the utter degradation of the scheme ? when nations profess to assimilate on principles of amity and to draw closer the ties of good will it is on the ground of a common cause â€” equally dear to both â€” either of freedom or of absolute power if rome were a republic the proposal to send an ambassador to preserve princi ples common to both governments and equally dear to the people of both coun tries would rest on a different foundation in that case we should have congenial in terests to preserve ; in that case we should be co-operating in the common cause of human rights put now we exhibit to the world the spectacle of a pure antag onism i our system of government to that of rome two systems more opposite could not exist when liberty makes con cessions to tyranny which gains by it i not freedom not the cause of human rights despotism thrives by it we lend encouragement to a system of government at open war with the happiness of man kind we become the patrons of an ab solute monarch we tell him to scourge on scourge on we are about to act in a crisis of pa pal history pregnant with the most event ful consequences to the world it is not a common occasion no ordinary im pulse moves the great machinery of papal power whose wheels are oiled by the ad ulation ol jesuit priests on the one hand and demagogues on the other not only is home coming into a new epoch but the l nited states is also beginning a new era why we have never before had an am bassador at rome is answered by the prompt reply that rome never before had a pius ixth on the papal throne ! we , have nothing then to justify this projected innovation but the modern character ol the new pope embassies once opened are never closed we cannot compliment pius by an embassy therefore for even i after his death it must be continued we compliment the papal system of govern ment by sending an ambassador having no commercial interests to settle or polit ical relations to adjust nor is it possible to compliment pius without compliment ing his system of government for he has as a liberal reformer made no fundamen tal alterations in it we are therefore to compliment him on his modified manner , of administering a system radically at war with the rights of man ; pernicious in itself and dangerous in every form it may assume and under every modifica tion that individual genius may venture i to adopt as a covering to its deformity i we have sympathized with the inde pendence of greece of south america ; and of mexico when casting off the yoke , of kings they established their claims to self government but how did we sym i pathize not by sending an ambassador but by passing resolutions in congress applauding the act of emancipation â€” i here were cases in which nations achiev ; ed their freedom and yet we sent no am bassadors if pius has emancipated the roman people bring forward your reso lutions and then we may have an oppor tunity to inquire how far the extent of his l reforms will justify even that manifesta 1 tion of our national applause the inno ; vation now proposed is against all prece â€¢ dent is frowned down by all principle is denounced by facts and rendered ridicu lous by its extravagance it would indeed be a farce but for the tragic character of its consequences ; and these entitle it to our unmitigated abhorrence pass this bill and you insult the majesty of the people by the desecration of their constitution by the violence done to the genius of our government hy the outrage on free principles involved in the propo sition to recognize papal rome an infal lible church power as the head of the state when we talk of the genius of repub lican government and allude to the spirit of free institutions said to be so mortally wounded by the mexican war let us re >â– member the wrong done to the spirit of freedom by this scheme of an ambassa dor to the pope whose spiriual character is the absorbing one of his throne and who if he is no pope is no sovereign â€” he holding his right to rule his subjects from a divine not a human source in all other monarchies the right divine is abol ished in rome it is the essence of sec ular as well as ecclesiastical power and â€¢ hence it is that no pope can be a reformer in the true sense of that term he can not give the people the rights they are entitled to because from that moment he would cease to be pope and the people ceasing to be slaves would become sov ereign pius never can do what would entitle him to american approbation xo pope can ever be worthy of an ambassa dor from this republic on grounds such as - we now hear maintained " would you have a serpent sting you twice ?*' we have had experience of the evils of monarchy in its best form and shall we risk the perils of its deadly ven om in the worst ? when did the church of rome or the pope ever receive hom age that it did not exact fealty ? when did it ever pause in its giant march after universal dominion ? when did it ever sleep if power was to be gained by wak ing ? when did it ever fascinate without the intention to destroy ? the flood of immigration is sweeping its millions of foreign roman catholic vo ters over the land the past is gloomy enough ; the present awfully portentous ; but the future is black " with shadows clouds and darkness this country seems destined to be the grand theatre of ro man catholic power â€” not american pa pistry but the papistry of rome â€” of the old world â€” of austria and of the pope â€” shall we grow wise in time or shall we surrender up our rights without resist ance ? shall we make a siand now on a government proposition to unite this free republic with absolute rome or shall we surrender in anticipation of the day of trial and ask the pope in despair to fet ter our hands before we strike a blow ? sir if it be written in the black book of fate that this great republic is yet to be come a dependancy of the court of rome let us not hasten our infamy by any pre mature weakness by any act that shall expedite our downfall or accellerate our bondage we are now asked to become voluntary agents in enthralling ourselves ; we are implored to send an embassador to rome â€” to have our manacles forged in the furnaces ofthe imperial citv under the special care of the holy father who acknowledges no human authority in mat ters of government but who pleads a di vine right to bow down the neck ot man in the dust and yoke him to the iron car of absolute power do americans who think favorably of this measure as a s'roke of policv to con ciliate the fun ign catholic vote calcu late that it must cost the honor if not the freedom of our country when thev propose that we shall dispatch a political ambas sador to a prince who maintains that all power emanates from a divine source and that the people possess in themselves no inherent rights i has it been ascer tained even that the pontiff will receive an ambassador from a country not only branded with heresy but outlawed as dem ocratic from the pale of legitimate gov ernment ? the practice of the papal court has always been adverse to receiv ing missions from powers that did not in some form acknowledge her sapremacv even england has for ages maintained no diplomatic relations with rome owing to her protestant contumacy are we to bend the knee lirst and then to acknowl edge the pope as the source of all power ? must we prove recreant to our jrlorious declaration of independence ? must we renounce popular rights ? on what terms s our ambassador to go ? does the pro position come from the pope or originate ; with our own cabinet ? these are im , portant questions to answer has his ho liness turned democrat and fallen in love with our free institutions ? this is not probable ; for if he cannot tolerate the idea of a protestant hierarchy like eng land he will not assuredly be able to look with complacency upon a people who maintain the radical equality of the hu man race as we do if the appointment were a mere mer chantile arrangement to negotiate a trea ty of trade and commerce it would wear a color more rational â€” even although the pope is not bound to keep faith with heretics ! but alas ! the pontine marsh es are the boundaries of the trade and . commerce of the roman pontiff he has no trade no commerce no exchanges of . value to offer for our cotton our tobacco our rice our flour or our hemp it be comes then a pure political embassy : yet having no political relations with rome it becomes reduced to a mere nullity an empty form an unmeaning pageant a rediculous display wicked in its concep tion disgraceful in its tendency and pro digal in its expenditure is this a time to play wiih expensive baubles while we are borrowing millions upon millions to prosecute the war ? must we add to the burdens of our national debt by taxing tea and coffee in order that we may send an ambassador to the roman pontiff to ac quire the vices or familiarize himself with the frivolities of european courts ! how stands this boasted italian refor mer as a constitutional monarch \ is he willing to part with any of hifi boasted prerogatives as an absolute king listen to his own declarations spoken at the last opening of his council of state and mark the holy indignation with which he repels the slightest imputation or suspician of his despotic character ! and yet we the am erican people propose to send a deputa tion an embassy to this confirmed des pot ! these are his words " i thank you for your good intentions ; and as regards the public welfare i es teem them of value it was for the pub lic good that since my elevation to lhe pontifical throne i have in accordance with the counsels inspired by god accom plished all that i could ; and i am still rea dy with the assistance of god to do all for the future without however retrench ! ing in any degree the sovereignty of the pontificate ; and inasmuch as i received it full and entire from my predecessors so shall i transmit this sacred deposite to my successors i have three millions of sub jects as witnesses and i have hitherto ac complished much to unite my subjects with me and to ascertain and provide for their necessities it was particularly to ascertain those wants and to provide bet ter for the exigencies of the public service that i have assembled a permanent coun cil it was to hear your opinion when necessary and to aid me in my sovereign resolutions in which i shall consult my conscience and confer on them with the ministers and the sacred college any body who would take any other view of the functions you are called to fulfil would mistake materially as well as he that would see in the council of state i bave created the realization ot their own utop ias and the germ of an institution incom patible with the pontifical sovereignty now what are the facts ? the united states can only regard pius in his tempo ral and political character as a soveregn the monarch of rome and we find that sovereign so jealous of his absolute pow er as to denounce by anticipation any possible surmise of his intention to part with or relax in favor of popular freedom any the slightest portion of his absolute prerogatives he will not retrench one iota of that power which he has received full and entire from his predecessors and which he will transmit as a sacred depo site to his successors and wbat is this deposite ? such is the language of the reformer for whom a faction in the uni nited states would express sympathy and with whom they are willin_r to fraternize ! true we send a minister to russia who is an absolute monarch ; but our commer cial relations wiih russia justify it but in the case of pius we propose to send a sympathizing embassy spechl political agent to uphold his political character and encourage him in his efioits to over throw american institutions ! sir 1 wage no war against any relig ious opinions of foreigners or americans nor t\o 1 conceive jesuit influence to have any connexion with religion roman catholic countries have in succession de nounced expelled or proscribed the je suits as the most formidable enemies of government ; several popes have fulmi nated their bulls against them lt is two trite a part of history to detail for all know that it was pope clement the xiv who promulgated the memorable edict for their suppression as a pernicious or der whose ambition was incompatible with the government of empires and the purity of the roman catholic religion ! their colleges were suppressed aod their revenues confiscated by roman catholic prelates popes and kings the institu tion of ignatius loyala was made to im mortalize the ambition of bad nun it laughed with derision at tbe power of states to extinguish it it still flourishes more formidable than ever throughout eu rope unseen in its giant power but more powerful than kings following in the path of their victims they come in droves to the i nited states and are now spread through the length and breadth of the land with smiling and meek exterior their purposes are all usiful they wear no terrific front : ihey carry no weapon to destroy life ; but bear the sceptre of know ledge in their hands and under the ban ner of education they instil ihe insidious doctrines that invest them with almost omnipotent power over the minds of their disciples power over tht human will is the object of the jesuit and the aim of that power is to rule man by enslaving him a community under the influence of jesuits must be a community of slaves implicit obedience to the behests of a des pot is the first law of the order and will you give fresh vigor to that order by cour ting a legate ofthe pope to be stationed in ihis city for the purpose of centralizing its influence t sir foreign colonies plan ted among us under the influence of such a central power cannot fail to work out their designs even to the overthrow of our free institutions i tell you and 1 tell the nation for there is yet time to save it that the propagan dists of europe are coloni/.ng this coun try ; that the foreign population is being dexterously located not only with the view to the holding ofthe balance of power ia certain states but with reference to the organization of new ones under the pecu liar influence of the jesuits who will spread their ample wings over them go where they may the jesuit is not con fined to the country he is at home eve ry where his web is thrown over all his power benumbs the soul ami fetters the body his victim is controlled and moves and acts at the will of his master and it is this master whom you propose to serve by the pas-age of this hill sir a jesuit college of seminary are now familiar things lo he seen in ai pla ces and daily increased without exciting a sensation or giving birth to a remark habit reconciles us to evil even when most odious and revolting in its features but a gilded exterior makes evil a wel come ohject to our senses we irreet the man whose bland smiles cheer us and whose flatteries gratify our vanity cour tesy and learning both unite to render the jesuit insinuating ; and hail he no object but the single purpose of improving the intellect of mankind he should receive the homage of my admiration but even education may be purchased at two high a price alter all can the knowl edge inculcated hy the jesuit be called education .'" it is not at least the ed ucation of an american or of a freeman a repuhlican come from what quarter of the globe in may ought to have his whole soul expanded to the utmost bounds of lib eralityâ€”free daring energetic and bound less in its oaring flight ; feeling no throb he feared to utter-burning with no thought he dare not express this sir is the ba sis the only basis of american education unrestrained freedom of thought and speech with no ma-tcr but god no supe rior but the laws â€” conscience for his guide and reason for his counsellor if no other evil resulted to the ameri can people hut this system of servile ed ucation by the ambitious jesuit who seeks to control it wrapping up the minds of our american youths in the eternal bon dage ot egyptian darkness it would be quite a sufficient inducement to put a curb on the evil rather than to give loose rein to their design by the passage of this bill let it not be forgotten that this system of intellectual and moral bondage is only a nu mis to a great ulterior end ; ami that is political power and religious authority although the popes have at various pe riods iu the history of tbe world pretended to suppress the order ofthe jesuits they have never failed to avail themselves of their aid as missionaries they might be suppressed at limit but it was only to nerve them for lieeh exertion in a distant land lt never was content with spiritu al d illusion but always stru_r_rles and pants to gain temporal power for its priest ly head we find no other religion but that of the pope concentrating its votes o accomplish political power lt is pe culiar to popery never to rest content till it incorporates its power with the civil government we have the voice of his tory to instruct us in the fact that a reli gion ft untied on tin union uf spiritual and 0 inptji il power uiii strife naturally in pro pagate that union as inilisjn nsahie tu its perfection without political power such a religion is not only incomplete but de

erm of the watchman | , notion per year two dollars payable in i*'"5"*"1 hut it not paid in advance two dollars ffis'cts will be charged 1 b-jcest inserted at 1 fox the first and 2f cts vtrh subsequent insertion court ord.-rs charged ct higher than these rates a liberal deduc ts who advertise by the year jjl to the editors must be postpaid poetical from the dublin nation here i bit his own wife . j bat his own wife to guard and to guide him f,i little of sorrow would fall on my dear : . ant 11 1 >' low love verses stealing beside him i and so tender his heart would bul hear ; ie wiid blossoms from valley and highland tere at his feet i would lay them all down ; _â€¢ bim the songs of our poor-stricken island heart was on tire with a love like my own 0,'i a rose by his dwellingâ€”i'd tend the lone treas ure r-,a he night have flowers when the summer would bbbie ; rvre's arl '" 'â– *'" â€” i would wake its sweet mea . , inn have music to brighten his home --,., 1 hut his own wife to guide and to guard him -â€¢ of sorrow should fall on my dear ; , rtwry kind glance my whole life would reward him â€” in sickness i'd soothe and in sadness i'd cheer y heart is a fount welling upward forever â€” vii**n i think of my true love hy night or by day u heart keeps its faith like a fast flowing river rushes forever and sings on its way i-i thoughts full of peace for his soul to repose in rk 1 hut his own wife to win and to woo â€” n meet it the night of misfortune were closing tii r i'ke the morning star darling on you poetry j.ine on the sorrowful death of two lovers my i is of a nice young man whose name was peter gray the state where peter gray was bom was pennsylvani-a this peter gray did fall in love all with a nice young girl the name of her i'm positive was lizianny querl when they were going to be wed her father he said " no !" nd brutally did send her off beyond the ohi-o when lvt*-r found his love was lost he knew not what to say ; he'd half a mind to jump into the susquehanni-a \ trading he went to the west for furs and oilier skins an*l there he was in crimson drest by bloody in-ji-ins when lizianny heard the news she straightway went lo bed and nevt that look of anguish and despair as he said to me taoe which made my very rlesh creep ' no no it is n.l aiu damned forever !' i tried ro speak ; but there """â€¢Â» mmething in his manner which sent the conviction "'* ")>' iimul that he spoke truly and involuntarily i re ''"Â°, i believe it and he spoke truly a few i after he died dead drunk he was damned for v-r from the taunton " dew drop who would marry a drunkard u would be well if young ladies who may he receiv ttentions of wine-drinking suitors would pause ' â€¢ eflect for a moment they should remember that iking leads to brandy-drinking and that there - almost a moral certainty that he who drinks ill become a drunkard facts prove this ; reform linkards have thus publicly stated in their address beware of him who frequents the hotel beware : who ridicules the temperance cause or jeers at rance man trust not your life with him â€” ne may reform you reply yes he may reform ire a hundred reasons to believe he will become uiikard where there is one to believe he will reform ' r'vat trust not to the wine drinker your happi yourall for this world is depending upon that iin " nt decision which you may be about to make in re l'"2 or rejecting the addresses of that young friend 1 lie thousands of drunkards wives teach vou a ies y alas are pining in sorrow emaciated with . long watching and unkind treatment will you Â»Â° their advice ? we seem to hear it from ten miserable women coining from ten thousand jjj'-nu hovels trust not the wine-drinker he will tt you | there is no safety but in total abstinence the carolina watchman bruner & james \ editors sc proprietors j " k"r a r^â„¢v all toc . s new series do this msb liberty is sufi < â– -*â– â– Â»-. gen'l harrison [ number 47 of volume iv salisbury n c thursday march 23 1848 remarks of mr levin of penxsvlvan-a 7/i the house of representatives march 2d . mr levin said mr chairman i have been so often misrepresented by the paid agents of the jesuits who hang a round this hall and who swarm over our land that i have come prepared to-day i was surprised to find in the bill now be fore the committee an appropriation for a charge-ship to rome and still more sur prised when my friend the honorable gen tleman from alabama informed me that he intended to move an amendment sub stituting in its stead a minister plenipo tentiary an embassy to rome i had sup posed to be the pet measure of the presi dent of the united states sympathy with pope pius ix appears to be the hob by horse of political leaders o'connell the irish reformer is dead the curtain has fallen upon that last act of the na tional farce and now the pope an italian reformer steps upon the stage to conclude what o'connell left unfinished the hur rah has gone through the country ; public meetings have been held sympathy for the pope has grown almost into a fashion : yet sir in no legitimate sense can this ; embassy to rome be called a national measure intended for the public benefit we have no commerce to protect in the roman states ; we have no seamen whose rights may need even the supervision of a government agent or consul ; we have no navy riding in her only harbor ; we ; have no interests that may be exposed to jeopardy for want of an ambassador the papal flag has never been known ! to wave in an american port no ame : rican vessel has received the visit of a pope dwelling under the shadow of the ruins of antiquity we have never been l disturbed but by the bulls of pope greg | ory and the intrigues of his jesuits what then has produced this sudden revolution in the concerns of the countries ? we are told that pius the 9th is a reformer in deed ! in what sense is he a reformer ? has he divested himself of any of his ab solute prerogatives ? has he cast off his claims to infallibility ? has he flung aside his triple crown ? has he diminished aught from the imperial elevation of the tiara and does he no longer hold in bondage the bodies and souls of his sub jects ? has he become a republican ? â€” does he acknowledge the inherent equal ity of mankind ? has he abolished tithes ? has he emancipated his people ? has he suppressed the jusuits ? far from it â€” nothing of this has been done he main tains his own prerogatives as absolute as j gregory the 19th or any of his illustrious ! predecessors in what then does the [ world give him credit for being a reform er ? for building up on a new and firmer foundation his own secular power for permitting a press to be established in rome under his own supervision and con \ trol ; for carrying out measures not to be ; censured but certainly giving him no pre tensions beyond that of a selfish sagacity intent on the study of all means calcula ted to add stability to his spiritual power and firmness to his temporal throne rut a sagacious monarch docs not constitute a liberal reformer even though he may correct many abuses that disgraced his predecessors who by their bigotry and intolerance had reduced the once boasted power of the papal see to a mere cipher as a free and civilized government anx ious for the continued progress of the pop ' ular mind we had infinitely more reason lor applauding gregory the 19th for pull ing down the power of the roman see than sending an embassy to pius the 9;h for having revived the drooping giant and imparted fresh energy to the most des potic power the world has ever felt why was no ambassador sent to gregory ? why is an ambassador sent to pius not because the interests of the country re quire it and who believes it is because of the landed liberality of one who seems ambitious of the renown of a man ofthe age ? who believes it is because pius encourages railways ; for what are ro man railways to us ? we have a more rational though less pleasing solution of this wonderful and newly awakened sym pathy for rome iu the increase of the ro man catholic vote caused by the irish famine and the difficulty of living in the german states which sends among us such countless legions of foreigners and what must be the occupation of the american ambassador when he reaches rome ? will he devote his attention to the increase of this supply of alien voters or to the interests of the united states in the cabinets of continental europe 1 â€” having no commercial or political duties to perform save those connected with the american ballot-box he must keep up the supply of voters who are to be judicious ly located by the legate ofthe pope and who so capable of this great diplomatic duty as the man who has so industriously agitated this sympathy to rome to gratify his inordinate and gigantic ambition who for years past has been the dictator the trader and the pander of the foreign ro man catholic vote ; who one minute acts the priest and the next day plays the po litician ; who would have the world to be lieve that he is greater than the president of the united states because he is the power behind the throne who moves the president who would have the world believe that because he flatters the ame rican people by a sermon from the nation al forum that he is the mainspring of the american congress combining the cha racter of priest and politician allowed to the ministers of no other sect this ambi tious demagogue taking for his molto that " impudence is power has dared to dis play an extent of audacity never practised and never allowed to any other clergy man this embassy and all the public turmoil that has led to its suggestion is the work of an intriguing restless grasp ing and ambitious priest who fans in bis bosom the nefarious hope that he is him self to be the destined organ between a free republic and an absolute hicrarch is it not enough that he should draw us into the vortex of european tyranny su perstition and corruption but must heal so dream of the vast honor of consumma ting in his own person this revolting alli ance between the crimes of hoary guilt and the purity of youthful innocence ? â€” for what after all has this popular pope done but oiled the chains of his people that they might never have power to break them asunder ? what are all his reforms 1 but gilded thraldom and slavery made eternal by modern rivets forged in the : ! fires of that " progress which serves equally to gloss the schemes of tyrants and the projects of imbecility ; which can be used with as much plausibility by the arch-tyrant who understands how to en \ \ slave men through their passions and im ; aginations as the political empiric who \ disguises his own ignoranee by prating of the march of mind ; whose tongue dis > j courses of benevolence while his iron hand , ! is armed with the power of oppression ? i i ask has pius ix abolished tithes â€” ; has he granted universal suffrage or any suffrage to his papal subjects has he , \ established a representative government ! has he introduced trial by jury ? has he \ granted the writ of habeas corpus ? has he abolished the college of cardinals ? â€” '. ' has he established common schools ? â€” has he struck down the power of the con ; fessional ? has he repealed the demor alizing edict of celibacy ? has he thrown open the gates of the monastery or un barred the iron bolts of the convent ? â€” ; has he separated church power from state authority ? has he abolished that pest bouse of intrigue and pernicious propa j ganism the society of the jesuits ? he has done none of these things then what has he done to entitle him to the sympa thy of the people and the homage of the government of the united states no thing he has made no fundamental alteration ; in the papal system the edifice remains entire ; it is supported by the same gothic | columns of mideval ignorance and super 1 stition he may polish an architrave â€” he may repair a broken step leading to the vestibule or suspend a new wreath around the altar or add an ivory crucifix : or even lay a railway into the capital of j ; the caesars but the palace system remains entire unaltered unimproved â€” the same stern tyranny the same inflexible com pound of earthly and celestial despotism vet the man who is pope is not a caesar borgia pius is not as a man so narrow and contracted as gregory pius under stands human nature and knows how to render the papal system popular by wrea thing chains with rose blossoms perhaps the elements mix more gently in his bo som put all this does not make the papal system less odious it was said of augustus the first ro ' man emperor that he made tyranny so beautiful by his amiable character as to destroy in the roman people lhe love of liberty pius is now doing more than augustus for he is reconciling the world to the concentrated despotism of the most iron-handed hierachy that ever flourished if rome will not come to america ame rica must go to rome ! this is the new doctrine of an age of retrogressive pro gress if the pope will not establish a republic for his italian subjects we the american people must renounce all the ties of our glorious freedom and endorse the papal system as the perfection of hu man wisdom by sending an ambassador to rome to congratulate " his holiness on having made â€” what ? the roman people free oh no but on having made tyranny amiable in having su gared the poisoned cake as lor this the highest crime against freedom we are to commission an ambassador to rome ! is there an american heart that does not recoil from the utter degradation of the scheme ? when nations profess to assimilate on principles of amity and to draw closer the ties of good will it is on the ground of a common cause â€” equally dear to both â€” either of freedom or of absolute power if rome were a republic the proposal to send an ambassador to preserve princi ples common to both governments and equally dear to the people of both coun tries would rest on a different foundation in that case we should have congenial in terests to preserve ; in that case we should be co-operating in the common cause of human rights put now we exhibit to the world the spectacle of a pure antag onism i our system of government to that of rome two systems more opposite could not exist when liberty makes con cessions to tyranny which gains by it i not freedom not the cause of human rights despotism thrives by it we lend encouragement to a system of government at open war with the happiness of man kind we become the patrons of an ab solute monarch we tell him to scourge on scourge on we are about to act in a crisis of pa pal history pregnant with the most event ful consequences to the world it is not a common occasion no ordinary im pulse moves the great machinery of papal power whose wheels are oiled by the ad ulation ol jesuit priests on the one hand and demagogues on the other not only is home coming into a new epoch but the l nited states is also beginning a new era why we have never before had an am bassador at rome is answered by the prompt reply that rome never before had a pius ixth on the papal throne ! we , have nothing then to justify this projected innovation but the modern character ol the new pope embassies once opened are never closed we cannot compliment pius by an embassy therefore for even i after his death it must be continued we compliment the papal system of govern ment by sending an ambassador having no commercial interests to settle or polit ical relations to adjust nor is it possible to compliment pius without compliment ing his system of government for he has as a liberal reformer made no fundamen tal alterations in it we are therefore to compliment him on his modified manner , of administering a system radically at war with the rights of man ; pernicious in itself and dangerous in every form it may assume and under every modifica tion that individual genius may venture i to adopt as a covering to its deformity i we have sympathized with the inde pendence of greece of south america ; and of mexico when casting off the yoke , of kings they established their claims to self government but how did we sym i pathize not by sending an ambassador but by passing resolutions in congress applauding the act of emancipation â€” i here were cases in which nations achiev ; ed their freedom and yet we sent no am bassadors if pius has emancipated the roman people bring forward your reso lutions and then we may have an oppor tunity to inquire how far the extent of his l reforms will justify even that manifesta 1 tion of our national applause the inno ; vation now proposed is against all prece â€¢ dent is frowned down by all principle is denounced by facts and rendered ridicu lous by its extravagance it would indeed be a farce but for the tragic character of its consequences ; and these entitle it to our unmitigated abhorrence pass this bill and you insult the majesty of the people by the desecration of their constitution by the violence done to the genius of our government hy the outrage on free principles involved in the propo sition to recognize papal rome an infal lible church power as the head of the state when we talk of the genius of repub lican government and allude to the spirit of free institutions said to be so mortally wounded by the mexican war let us re >â– member the wrong done to the spirit of freedom by this scheme of an ambassa dor to the pope whose spiriual character is the absorbing one of his throne and who if he is no pope is no sovereign â€” he holding his right to rule his subjects from a divine not a human source in all other monarchies the right divine is abol ished in rome it is the essence of sec ular as well as ecclesiastical power and â€¢ hence it is that no pope can be a reformer in the true sense of that term he can not give the people the rights they are entitled to because from that moment he would cease to be pope and the people ceasing to be slaves would become sov ereign pius never can do what would entitle him to american approbation xo pope can ever be worthy of an ambassa dor from this republic on grounds such as - we now hear maintained " would you have a serpent sting you twice ?*' we have had experience of the evils of monarchy in its best form and shall we risk the perils of its deadly ven om in the worst ? when did the church of rome or the pope ever receive hom age that it did not exact fealty ? when did it ever pause in its giant march after universal dominion ? when did it ever sleep if power was to be gained by wak ing ? when did it ever fascinate without the intention to destroy ? the flood of immigration is sweeping its millions of foreign roman catholic vo ters over the land the past is gloomy enough ; the present awfully portentous ; but the future is black " with shadows clouds and darkness this country seems destined to be the grand theatre of ro man catholic power â€” not american pa pistry but the papistry of rome â€” of the old world â€” of austria and of the pope â€” shall we grow wise in time or shall we surrender up our rights without resist ance ? shall we make a siand now on a government proposition to unite this free republic with absolute rome or shall we surrender in anticipation of the day of trial and ask the pope in despair to fet ter our hands before we strike a blow ? sir if it be written in the black book of fate that this great republic is yet to be come a dependancy of the court of rome let us not hasten our infamy by any pre mature weakness by any act that shall expedite our downfall or accellerate our bondage we are now asked to become voluntary agents in enthralling ourselves ; we are implored to send an embassador to rome â€” to have our manacles forged in the furnaces ofthe imperial citv under the special care of the holy father who acknowledges no human authority in mat ters of government but who pleads a di vine right to bow down the neck ot man in the dust and yoke him to the iron car of absolute power do americans who think favorably of this measure as a s'roke of policv to con ciliate the fun ign catholic vote calcu late that it must cost the honor if not the freedom of our country when thev propose that we shall dispatch a political ambas sador to a prince who maintains that all power emanates from a divine source and that the people possess in themselves no inherent rights i has it been ascer tained even that the pontiff will receive an ambassador from a country not only branded with heresy but outlawed as dem ocratic from the pale of legitimate gov ernment ? the practice of the papal court has always been adverse to receiv ing missions from powers that did not in some form acknowledge her sapremacv even england has for ages maintained no diplomatic relations with rome owing to her protestant contumacy are we to bend the knee lirst and then to acknowl edge the pope as the source of all power ? must we prove recreant to our jrlorious declaration of independence ? must we renounce popular rights ? on what terms s our ambassador to go ? does the pro position come from the pope or originate ; with our own cabinet ? these are im , portant questions to answer has his ho liness turned democrat and fallen in love with our free institutions ? this is not probable ; for if he cannot tolerate the idea of a protestant hierarchy like eng land he will not assuredly be able to look with complacency upon a people who maintain the radical equality of the hu man race as we do if the appointment were a mere mer chantile arrangement to negotiate a trea ty of trade and commerce it would wear a color more rational â€” even although the pope is not bound to keep faith with heretics ! but alas ! the pontine marsh es are the boundaries of the trade and . commerce of the roman pontiff he has no trade no commerce no exchanges of . value to offer for our cotton our tobacco our rice our flour or our hemp it be comes then a pure political embassy : yet having no political relations with rome it becomes reduced to a mere nullity an empty form an unmeaning pageant a rediculous display wicked in its concep tion disgraceful in its tendency and pro digal in its expenditure is this a time to play wiih expensive baubles while we are borrowing millions upon millions to prosecute the war ? must we add to the burdens of our national debt by taxing tea and coffee in order that we may send an ambassador to the roman pontiff to ac quire the vices or familiarize himself with the frivolities of european courts ! how stands this boasted italian refor mer as a constitutional monarch \ is he willing to part with any of hifi boasted prerogatives as an absolute king listen to his own declarations spoken at the last opening of his council of state and mark the holy indignation with which he repels the slightest imputation or suspician of his despotic character ! and yet we the am erican people propose to send a deputa tion an embassy to this confirmed des pot ! these are his words " i thank you for your good intentions ; and as regards the public welfare i es teem them of value it was for the pub lic good that since my elevation to lhe pontifical throne i have in accordance with the counsels inspired by god accom plished all that i could ; and i am still rea dy with the assistance of god to do all for the future without however retrench ! ing in any degree the sovereignty of the pontificate ; and inasmuch as i received it full and entire from my predecessors so shall i transmit this sacred deposite to my successors i have three millions of sub jects as witnesses and i have hitherto ac complished much to unite my subjects with me and to ascertain and provide for their necessities it was particularly to ascertain those wants and to provide bet ter for the exigencies of the public service that i have assembled a permanent coun cil it was to hear your opinion when necessary and to aid me in my sovereign resolutions in which i shall consult my conscience and confer on them with the ministers and the sacred college any body who would take any other view of the functions you are called to fulfil would mistake materially as well as he that would see in the council of state i bave created the realization ot their own utop ias and the germ of an institution incom patible with the pontifical sovereignty now what are the facts ? the united states can only regard pius in his tempo ral and political character as a soveregn the monarch of rome and we find that sovereign so jealous of his absolute pow er as to denounce by anticipation any possible surmise of his intention to part with or relax in favor of popular freedom any the slightest portion of his absolute prerogatives he will not retrench one iota of that power which he has received full and entire from his predecessors and which he will transmit as a sacred depo site to his successors and wbat is this deposite ? such is the language of the reformer for whom a faction in the uni nited states would express sympathy and with whom they are willin_r to fraternize ! true we send a minister to russia who is an absolute monarch ; but our commer cial relations wiih russia justify it but in the case of pius we propose to send a sympathizing embassy spechl political agent to uphold his political character and encourage him in his efioits to over throw american institutions ! sir 1 wage no war against any relig ious opinions of foreigners or americans nor t\o 1 conceive jesuit influence to have any connexion with religion roman catholic countries have in succession de nounced expelled or proscribed the je suits as the most formidable enemies of government ; several popes have fulmi nated their bulls against them lt is two trite a part of history to detail for all know that it was pope clement the xiv who promulgated the memorable edict for their suppression as a pernicious or der whose ambition was incompatible with the government of empires and the purity of the roman catholic religion ! their colleges were suppressed aod their revenues confiscated by roman catholic prelates popes and kings the institu tion of ignatius loyala was made to im mortalize the ambition of bad nun it laughed with derision at tbe power of states to extinguish it it still flourishes more formidable than ever throughout eu rope unseen in its giant power but more powerful than kings following in the path of their victims they come in droves to the i nited states and are now spread through the length and breadth of the land with smiling and meek exterior their purposes are all usiful they wear no terrific front : ihey carry no weapon to destroy life ; but bear the sceptre of know ledge in their hands and under the ban ner of education they instil ihe insidious doctrines that invest them with almost omnipotent power over the minds of their disciples power over tht human will is the object of the jesuit and the aim of that power is to rule man by enslaving him a community under the influence of jesuits must be a community of slaves implicit obedience to the behests of a des pot is the first law of the order and will you give fresh vigor to that order by cour ting a legate ofthe pope to be stationed in ihis city for the purpose of centralizing its influence t sir foreign colonies plan ted among us under the influence of such a central power cannot fail to work out their designs even to the overthrow of our free institutions i tell you and 1 tell the nation for there is yet time to save it that the propagan dists of europe are coloni/.ng this coun try ; that the foreign population is being dexterously located not only with the view to the holding ofthe balance of power ia certain states but with reference to the organization of new ones under the pecu liar influence of the jesuits who will spread their ample wings over them go where they may the jesuit is not con fined to the country he is at home eve ry where his web is thrown over all his power benumbs the soul ami fetters the body his victim is controlled and moves and acts at the will of his master and it is this master whom you propose to serve by the pas-age of this hill sir a jesuit college of seminary are now familiar things lo he seen in ai pla ces and daily increased without exciting a sensation or giving birth to a remark habit reconciles us to evil even when most odious and revolting in its features but a gilded exterior makes evil a wel come ohject to our senses we irreet the man whose bland smiles cheer us and whose flatteries gratify our vanity cour tesy and learning both unite to render the jesuit insinuating ; and hail he no object but the single purpose of improving the intellect of mankind he should receive the homage of my admiration but even education may be purchased at two high a price alter all can the knowl edge inculcated hy the jesuit be called education .'" it is not at least the ed ucation of an american or of a freeman a repuhlican come from what quarter of the globe in may ought to have his whole soul expanded to the utmost bounds of lib eralityâ€”free daring energetic and bound less in its oaring flight ; feeling no throb he feared to utter-burning with no thought he dare not express this sir is the ba sis the only basis of american education unrestrained freedom of thought and speech with no ma-tcr but god no supe rior but the laws â€” conscience for his guide and reason for his counsellor if no other evil resulted to the ameri can people hut this system of servile ed ucation by the ambitious jesuit who seeks to control it wrapping up the minds of our american youths in the eternal bon dage ot egyptian darkness it would be quite a sufficient inducement to put a curb on the evil rather than to give loose rein to their design by the passage of this bill let it not be forgotten that this system of intellectual and moral bondage is only a nu mis to a great ulterior end ; ami that is political power and religious authority although the popes have at various pe riods iu the history of tbe world pretended to suppress the order ofthe jesuits they have never failed to avail themselves of their aid as missionaries they might be suppressed at limit but it was only to nerve them for lieeh exertion in a distant land lt never was content with spiritu al d illusion but always stru_r_rles and pants to gain temporal power for its priest ly head we find no other religion but that of the pope concentrating its votes o accomplish political power lt is pe culiar to popery never to rest content till it incorporates its power with the civil government we have the voice of his tory to instruct us in the fact that a reli gion ft untied on tin union uf spiritual and 0 inptji il power uiii strife naturally in pro pagate that union as inilisjn nsahie tu its perfection without political power such a religion is not only incomplete but de